Università Roma Tre

Technique and technology; Technical progress and economy; evolution of technology. Technological innovation: definition, classification; main theories on technological innovation; Technological innovation and effects in the short, medium and long term. Research and innovation.
Industrial automation: meaning and historical evolution. The map of industrial automation: classification criteria. Market and development of industrial automation
technology and production organization: from the steam engine to the assembly line; from mechanization to lean production through rigid and flexible automation. The integrated system and the automated system.
Relationship between organization of production processes and organization of work and company: traditional organization; enlarged; systemic; integrated.
Systems of coordination and control of company organization and current trends: from the hierarchical model to the holonic-virtual company.
Production processes: The new needs and the strategic parameters of production. Main kind of production processes: job shop process, batch, line and continuous.
Production cycles: technological, economic and environmental aspects.
Production management: Production plans. Demand forecasts. Project Management. Material management. Production control.
Production management techniques: The push and pull logic. The Just in Time logic and Lean Production. The MRP II system. The new production management models.
Quality: historical evolution; quality management and tools.

Greasley A., (2013), Operations Management, Third edition, Wiley

I teaching units
Introductory concepts: Technology and its meaning. Evolution of technology and economic evolution. Inventions and their origin. Technological innovation and its consequences in the employment, environmental and economic fields.

II teaching unit
Types of production processes: material flow. Product, process and industrial network. Own production (make) or purchase (buy): horizontal or vertical integration. Automation and its evolution
Technology and organization of work: forms of corporate organization, systems of coordination and control of the corporate organization, organization and business strategies.

III teaching unit
Production management: planning, programming, control. Comparison between western and eastern systems: pull and push logic compared.

IV teaching unit
Quality and its control (notes): Quality management (control graphics and modern applications). Total quality and overall quality. Quality economics and costs.

Chiacchierini E., Tecnologia e produzione. Ed. Cedam, 2012.
Testi aggiuntivi consigliati:

ARCESE G., FLAMMINI S., MARTUCCI O., (2013): “Dall’Innovazione alla Startup – l’esperienza d’imprenditori italiani in Italia e in California”, McGraw-Hill, Milano. ISBN: 978-88-386-7407-5.

Guglielmetti Mugion R., Semprini M., (2012), La Gestione Lean- Logica, metodologie, strumenti, esperienzeMcGraw-Hill, Milano. ISBN: 978-88-386-7299-6.